Email never reaches the frontline
All-staff email peaks at 22% opens, and deskless staff have no screen to read it on.
Springcast reaches people on the move, where email and intranet never go.
Internal podcast platform for business
Email reaches the inbox. A podcast reaches the whole workforce.
Open rates are falling, town halls don't scale, and most of your people don't sit at a desk. A private internal podcast reaches them on the commute, the floor, and the road, and tells you who listened. SSO-gated, EU-hosted, GDPR-safe.
Sound familiar?
The reason your message isn't landing isn't the message
Video is too slow to sound human
A polished video needs a crew, a studio and a week, so leadership defaults to email.
A leader records a 10-minute update on a phone and it ships the same day.
Internal content has to stay internal
Strategy and HR content can't land on Apple Podcasts, and listening data is employee data.
Feeds are SSO-gated, never public; data is first-party, EU-hosted, under a DPA.
You can't prove engagement
Without listenership data broken down by team, the budget conversation goes nowhere.
Springcast shows reach and completion: 81% of the field team, 64% to the end.
Every department wants its own channel
HR, sales and the CEO each want a channel, but IT won't build twelve tools.
One platform, a channel per team, central admin and one invoice.
Explore internal podcasting
Private feeds, employee distribution and the mechanics of a podcast that stays inside.
What's included
Everything internal comms needs, nothing built for advertisers
Private employee feeds
SSO/SAML-gated, IP-range restricted, off public directories. For employees only.
Reach deskless staff
Mobile-first listening. Works on the commute, the floor, the road. No desk required.
Engagement analytics for IC
Who listened, how far, by team and region. Exportable for leadership reporting.
Multi-department workspaces
A channel per department or region. Central oversight, independent publishing.
Record-to-publish in minutes
Upload, trim, publish. A leader can record on a phone and ship the same day.
Intranet & Teams embedding
Embed players in your intranet, Teams, or Viva.
EU-hosted, GDPR-safe
Data in the Netherlands. Employee listening data stays in Europe.
Branded internal player
Your brand, no Springcast badge, no ads, no third-party tracking.
Role-based access
Admin, editor, listener. Control who publishes and who hears each channel.
No ads, no profiling
Internal communication, not a consumer app. No ad tech, no behavioural profiling.
Private distribution
Internal stays internal. Gated to your people, off the public directories.
The whole thing falls apart if your restructure announcement turns up on Spotify. So privacy isn't a setting here, it's the foundation.
Gated to your people. Feeds are SSO/SAML-gated: employees authenticate through your corporate identity provider, so there's no extra password to manage and no one outside the org gets in. IP-range restriction and token-based links cover contractors and offices. Content never appears on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any public directory, it's not "hidden", it's genuinely not published there.
Employee data, treated as employee data. Who-listened information is first-party, stored in the Netherlands, and covered under the platform DPA. No ad tech. No behavioural profiling. No third-party trackers riding along in the player. Your privacy officer reviews this once and signs off, because there's nothing to flag.
We keep the mechanics on the dedicated feature page so this stays readable. If your IT team wants the full picture of how private feeds work, that's where it lives.
How internal podcasting works →- ✓ SSO/SAML-gated access
- ✓ IP-range restriction
- ✓ Private RSS and token-based links
- ✓ Off all public directories
- ✓ EU-hosted (Netherlands)
- ✓ GDPR-safe employee data, no profiling
Engagement analytics
Finally, internal comms with a number on it.
For years, internal comms has been the one channel that couldn't prove it worked. The newsletter has open rates. The intranet has page views. You had "the feedback was positive." That ends here.
The metrics that matter. Listens and completion rate per episode. A breakdown by team and by region, so you can see that the message reached the field but stalled in one office. Episode-over-episode trend, so you know whether the programme is building an audience or losing one. Everything exports to CSV for the leadership deck.
Proof, not surveillance. This is aggregate engagement data, designed for reporting, not a tool for watching individuals. It's first-party and EU-hosted, with no third-party trackers. You get the business case without turning internal comms into monitoring, which is exactly the line HR needs you to hold.
That's the difference between "we think people liked it" and "the safety briefing reached 88% of site staff, and completion is up 12 points since we switched from email." One of those gets the next budget approved.
See the analytics →- ✓ Listens and completion rate
- ✓ Breakdown by team / region
- ✓ Episode-over-episode trends
- ✓ CSV export for leadership reporting
- ✓ First-party, no third-party trackers
- ✓ Aggregate and privacy-respecting
Workspaces and production
One platform. A channel per department. No new tool per team.
The fastest way to kill an internal podcast is to make IT stand up a separate tool every time another team wants in. So we didn't.
A workspace per team. HR onboarding, sales enablement, the CEO's monthly, each gets its own channel, its own branding, and its own small team. Central admin sees all of them, sets the brand rails, and gets a single invoice. Each team publishes on its own schedule without waiting on anyone else.
Production that doesn't need a producer. Record-to-publish in minutes: upload the audio, auto-level it, trim the dead air, publish. A leader can record on a phone in the back of a car and have the episode live before lunch. No studio, no edit queue, no week-long turnaround.
Where your people already are. Embed the player in your intranet so listening happens inside the tools people already open. We also support embedding into Microsoft Teams and Viva.
Explore multi-workspace →- ✓ Workspace per department or region
- ✓ Central admin, one invoice
- ✓ Record-to-publish in minutes
- ✓ Embed players in your intranet
- ✓ Teams / Viva embedding
- ✓ Independent branding per channel
Honest comparison
How Springcast compares for internal communication
The honest comparison isn't against other podcast hosts, it's against whatever you're using to reach staff today. Here's where each option fits.
| Feature | Springcast | Public podcast hosts | MS Stream / SharePoint | Podbean / intranet video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private, SSO-gated feeds | Yes | No (public) | Yes (within tenant) | Limited |
| Off public directories | Yes | No | Yes | Partial |
| IC engagement analytics (by team/region) | Yes | Limited (consumer) | Limited | Limited |
| Multi-department workspaces | Yes | No | Partial (folders) | Limited |
| Mobile-first listening (deskless) | Yes | Yes | Clunky | Video-heavy |
| Ease of production (record-to-publish) | Yes | Yes | Manual | Manual |
| EU data residency (Netherlands) | Yes | No (US) | Depends on tenant | No (US) |
| No ads / no profiling | Yes | No | Yes | Partial |
| Already in your Microsoft stack | No | No | Yes | No |
Where the alternatives win: if your organisation lives entirely inside Microsoft 365 and you just need to drop an audio file into a channel now and then, Stream or SharePoint is already there and effectively free. Springcast earns its place when you want a real podcast experience, mobile-first listening for deskless staff, a channel per team, engagement analytics IC can take to the board, and a branded player people open.
Pricing
One tier for internal communications. Transparent.
Business tier, from €195/month
For internal comms, HR, and L&D teams. Private SSO-gated feeds, multi-department workspaces, IC engagement analytics, branded player, EU data residency, dedicated support. Invoicing available. PO-friendly. All prices excl. VAT. 14-day free trial.
Compare all tiers →Custom enterprise packages
For organizations that need SSO/SCIM provisioning, multi-region setup, or specific integration requirements.
Good to know
Questions internal comms and HR ask first
Yes. Feeds are SSO/SAML-gated, so employees authenticate through your corporate identity provider. You can add IP-range restrictions and token-based links for offices and contractors. Content never appears on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any public directory.
That's the point of audio. Listening is mobile-first, so frontline and deskless staff listen on the commute, on a break, or on the floor. With SSO via your identity provider, they don't need a corporate inbox to get access.
Yes. You get listens, completion rate, and a breakdown by team and region, plus episode-over-episode trends, all exportable to CSV for the leadership deck. It's the listenership number internal comms has never had.
Yes. Data is hosted in the Netherlands, it's first-party, and it's covered by a real DPA. Engagement reporting is aggregate, not individual surveillance. No ads, no behavioural profiling, no third-party trackers in the player.
Yes. Each department or region gets its own workspace with its own branding and team. Central admin sees all channels, sets brand rails, and receives one invoice. Each team publishes independently.
Not hard. Upload your audio, auto-level it, trim the dead air, and publish. A leader can record on a phone and have the episode live the same day. No studio or editor required.
You can embed the player in your intranet so listening happens inside the tools people already use. We also support embedding into Microsoft Teams and Viva.
This page is the view for internal comms, HR, and L&D buyers, the why, the use-cases, the business case. The internal podcast feature page explains exactly how the private-feed and distribution mechanics work. Start here for the case; go there for the mechanics.
No. Listeners authenticate through your existing identity provider via SSO. There's no extra account to create or password to manage.
No. The player is fully branded as yours, with no ads, no Springcast badge, and no third-party tracking. It's internal communication, not a consumer app.
Real podcasters. Real results.
What Springcast looks like in practice
"As a storyteller and content maker, you want to work as seamlessly as possible. Springcast makes that easy — so you can focus on your real work: telling stories."
Publishing without technical hassle, so all the attention goes to the story.
Martijn Aslander · Storyteller & content maker
"Our podcasts are now far easier to find on Spotify — and they’re being listened to more as a result."
The move to Springcast PRO was clearly guided, with transparent communication at every step. The PRO environment is clear and easy to use.
Gemeente Utrecht · Government
"With Springcast PRO, all our employees can listen to our internal podcasts even more easily."
Thanks to the migration service, our existing podcasts were converted quickly, so we could go live right away.
Kindergarden · Internal communications
2-3x
higher internal podcast completion rates than previous email or intranet engagement, reported by organizations on Springcast.
Reach the people email can't. And prove it landed.
A private internal podcast that reaches your whole workforce, including the deskless majority, with the engagement analytics to show leadership it worked.
Internal Podcast → Business Platform → Multi-Workspace → Analytics →